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"Reporting to Your Highness, we are preparing to bathe the young master, but he seems to be resisting," the palace maid said.

"I can do it myself here, no need, really no need to be so polite." Taking advantage of the princess looking in his direction, Su Yan broke free and dog-paddled away from the palace maid holding the cotton swab, her face full of vigilance.

"In that case, let's go out for tea!" Princess Wuxi saw that Su Yan seemed very uncomfortable being served, so she didn't force him. She raised her hand to signal the female official to prepare a towel to dry him off before leaving the bath.

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Su Yan originally came to deliver gifts, but ended up eating and drinking at Princess Wuxi's house, experiencing the extravagance of Princess Wuxi's daily life, and living the life of a prince consort.

While I wouldn't say I lingered there forever, I completely lost track of time while having fun.

If it weren't for her aunt sending a voice message telling the little fox to come home for dinner, Su Yan really wouldn't have noticed the sky outside the window filled with red clouds.

In summer, night falls late, and you can still see the red glow around 7 p.m.

It takes until 7:30 PM for the sky to completely darken, but the sky outside the window shows that it is already past 6 PM, long past the usual dinner time at Ruchun Garden.

When Su Yan's aunt urged her to go home, Princess Wuxi did not try to stop her. Instead, she ordered a female official to use her official privileges to speed through the air and send Su Yan home.

If you borrow and repay, it's easy to borrow again. If you force Su Yan to stay here for dinner, Princess Wuxi guesses that Su Yan's aunt might not agree to let him come to her house again next time.

"Auntie!"

Seeing her aunt sitting at the tea table on the fourth floor, tapping on an abacus, from the window, Su Yan couldn't help but call out to her from a distance.

"Little fox?"

Auntie turned her head in confusion and saw the little fox jump from the windowsill into her arms. Auntie looked at Su Yan with a dark expression and said:

"You can't be serious, can you? It's only been a few months since we last met."

"And... are you applying perfume? I can smell the fragrance even from a distance."

"I didn't apply any. It must be the floral scent of the soap from the princess's house. I just experienced the life of a rich fox at the princess's house. It was so luxurious."

After giving her aunt a bear hug, Su Yan noticed that the brothel was still closed and there was no sign of them having lunch, so she asked, "Huh? Aren't we supposed to be eating?"

"Ah, let's go to Luoheju for dinner."

My aunt took out a money pouch from her bosom and said with a slightly strange expression, "When I came out of the Ministry of Rites, I met Madam Wen. I don't know why, but she took out a hundred catties of spirit stones and handed them to me, saying, 'Go home, and I'll take you out to have some fun today instead of working.'"

Upon hearing this, Su Yan's expression became slightly subtle: "Madam Wen came to the brothel earlier to try and get some of my windfall luck. Perhaps she was planning to fight on the table tonight and didn't want the other ladies to know that I was back. Or even if they did know, they wouldn't be able to defeat windfall luck with windfall luck, right?"

"Is that so? Whatever! Just consider it like finding a hundred pounds of spirit stones on the way out!"

My aunt lifted Su Yan up in front of her, beaming, and rubbed Su Yan's fragrant cheek hard, saying:

"Truly a lucky charm for Auntie! It brought her good fortune as soon as it came home! Eat! We must have a good meal! Let's all go to Luoheju today!"

(End of this chapter)

Leave of absence note. Updates will resume tomorrow morning. (Happy Dragon Boat Festival everyone!)

Um, Happy Dragon Boat Festival to everyone.

Because of the holiday, I was out all day and ate too many zongzi (sticky rice dumplings). I feel a bit nauseous, so I'm taking a day off. I'll rest and write more tomorrow morning after I wake up.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 372 It is not gentlemanly to stand by and watch someone die!

Judging from Madam Wen's actions of giving her aunt one hundred catties of spirit stones and instructing her to take Su Yan out for a day to play, and to prevent Su Yan from coming into contact with other ladies.

She was really frustrated by her loss at mahjong last night, so she was willing to spend a lot of money just for the gaming experience.

After obtaining 100 jin of spirit stones, Auntie didn't hide it. She immediately took Su Yan and the talented women to Luohe Residence for a meal.

"Everyone, take a look at what you'd like to eat. Order whatever you like, don't be shy."

Upon arriving at Luoheju, Auntie had the maids set up two large tables. Each large table could seat twenty customers, and the two large tables were enough to seat everyone in Ruchun Garden. Even the monkeys were given seats and experienced the surprise of dining at a table for the first time.

Although the monkeys also had to make tea and serve everyone at the table while they ate, at least they were sitting at the table to eat together today, a privilege that other monkeys might not even have!

"Lychee wood roasted chicken, scallion oil chicken, and a single serving of watermelon juice."

After taking the menu, Su Yan glanced at it casually and ordered four or five dishes she liked. Then she handed the menu to Xiao Hong next to her, indicating that after ordering, they should each order a few of their favorite dishes.

Su Yan could be considered a regular customer of Luoheju. Back in the flower region, he often went to Luoheju to look for Grand Tutor Jin or later Dao Hua Zhenjun. He didn't have to pay for his purchases at Luoheju; they were directly charged to Grand Tutor Jin or Dao Hua Zhenjun's bills, which were then paid by Chi Wang, the owner behind the Luoheju chain.

Grand Tutor Jin's spirit stone was too precious for the Crimson King to accept, and Dao Hua Zhenjun's Tribulation Transcending stage cultivation was not just for show. His coming to stay at the Crimson King's Luohe Residence was an honor, and the fact that he did not ask the Crimson King for money was entirely due to Xia Yu's restraint and his reluctance to act recklessly.

The Red King had no interest in provoking such a monster.

The Tribulation Transcending stage is already the most powerful existence below the Celestial Realm. It only needs an opportunity and a heavenly tribulation to become one of the beings who reign supreme in the cultivation world.

"Is the matter at the academy settled?"

Auntie reached out and took a cup of tea brewed by the monkeys from the marble turntable, placed it in front of Su Yan, and asked about Su Yan's arrangements at the academy.

The spring outing is over, so now it's time to prepare for the ranking and score assessment, and then collect the prizes.

"It should be almost over, right? Only two groups of students passed, and all the other students have to take make-up exams. It might be a while before the dean officially announces the results."

Su Yan thought for a moment before answering her aunt's question, then asked, "Is there something you need, Auntie?"

"I'm fine, but Nanwu might have some issues," Auntie said, glancing at Nanwu. "It's that time of year again for merfolk to accumulate fat, so she might ask you to accompany her home to report on her year's progress to her parents."

“She had been talking to my aunt about this, and my aunt figured it shouldn’t be a big problem. She just wanted to see if you had any ideas.”

The Merfolk, or rather the entire sea beast race, have very different lifestyles from the land-dwelling demon race.

The sea beast race is organized into groups, with a clear division of labor and cooperation. Each beast has a specific role and responsibilities, and there are no small family-like organizations.

Basically, everything that can be shared is shared; the rest is handled collectively by the community.

Jiao Nanwu reported to her clan last year that she had found excellent male beasts in the Xia Yu Dynasty. Given that the demons she found were terrestrial demons, they might not be used to the customs of the sea beasts, so it would take some time to gently persuade them.

Now that autumn is approaching, Jiao Nanwu naturally needs to return to the Merfolk tribe to report on his progress.

In other words, she was taking Su Yan home to meet her parents. The mother and father that Jiao Nanwu had mentioned before were not her biological parents, but her clan mother and clan father.

Jiao Nanwu had already discussed it with her aunt, and after careful consideration, her aunt felt it was fine. The rest was up to Su Yan to decide whether he wanted to go or not.

"Are we going to the territory of the Merfolk?"

Su Yan looked surprised and asked, "With my current cultivation level, am I even capable of wandering around the seabed?"

Su Yan's understanding of the Endless Sea, apart from the time he went fishing at sea with his mother, was all based on knowledge from books.

Because of the vast number of sea beasts and the endless reproduction of dragons, the Endless Sea is home to numerous sub-dragons who rule over their own territory. The powerful strength of the dragons has squeezed out the living space of other sea beast races.

As a result, the Endless Sea has always been chaotic. Humans mostly only fish in the near-shore areas. Once they travel about ten miles from the land into the sea, they often see groups of sea beasts that have been suppressed by dragons and have chosen to migrate, or those with the ability to roam.

"It's not just the two of you going, your aunt is going too!" Auntie looked at Su Yan and continued:

"Well, to be honest, my aunt is going to Xia Yu on business, and my aunt is trying to avoid trouble, so she was thinking of going with you guys."

Su Yan's forehead creased with three black lines as he looked at his aunt and asked, "So, if I go home with Sister Nanwu to meet my parents, you'll come with me, Auntie? If I don't go to Sister Nanwu's house, you'll go home with her and leave me at home to look after the house?"

“You’re not wrong to think that way,” Auntie said, a hint of disdain on her face. “Anyway, I’m going to lay low. But I’ll have to ask for favors from other fellow Daoists. You know how empty my wallet is, it’s not even as thick as the height-increasing insoles they hide in their undergarments.”

“If you don’t go, I can cover for Nanwu so she won’t get scolded when she gets home.”

My aunt has a pretty good impression of Jiaonanwu.

Although Nanwu seems a bit dull, she's very good at sales in Ruchun Garden. Her slightly dazed expression, coupled with her honest tone, always manages to bring business to her aunt's house without her even realizing it.

Now that Nanwu is in trouble, how could her righteous aunt stand by and watch her die?

It also saves me from sending silver to other fellow cultivators. I already need to spend a lot of spirit stones for cultivation, and if I gamble away my money, I'm afraid I'll just suffer a bloodbath.

"Well"

Su Yan pondered for a moment before asking, "Where does Sister Nanwu live again? It's not near the Dragon Clan, is it? Or is it in the direction of the South China Sea?"

Seeing that her aunt was preparing to flee to avoid trouble, and not seeing her other aunt who might be coming to Xia Yu soon, Su Yan thought about it and realized that there didn't seem to be anything going on recently. The dean would need at least one or two months to complete the make-up exam, so she decided to go to the seaside with her aunt to eat seafood.

But before leaving, Su Yan still briefly mentioned her concerns.

Places near the Dragon Clan's territory are off-limits. Secondly, the area from the Southern State to the South China Sea is affected by the Dragon Father, and the area is now full of the Dragon Clan's affiliated demon races. Su Yan doesn't want to be caught by the Dragon Clan and taken back to their territory to have two litters of cubs.

"Where do you live? Uh..."

The aunt was slightly taken aback, turned around and looked at Jiao Nanwu who was washing the dust off the dishes, and asked, "Nanwu, where do you live again?"

Jiao Nanwu never seemed to have mentioned her home. Every time she went home, she didn't actually go home. Instead, she went to the water transport transfer station of the Xia Yu underground water system to see her clan mother or clan father. It wasn't a real homecoming.

"My home? My home is in the West Sea." Jiao Nanwu looked at her aunt with a puzzled expression and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Her home is in Xihai."

The aunt looked at Su Yan and spoke with certainty.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 373 The Theory of Immortality for the Strong

"Huh? You really want to come home with me?"

Jiao Nanwu was puzzled as to what the aunt and nephew were talking about, and why it involved where she lived. Then, her aunt told Jiao Nanwu some good news: after careful and serious discussion, the two of them decided that Jiao Nanwu's matter was their matter, and they had to support her!

"That's wonderful! I was worried about how to explain myself when I got back. If my mother found out that I'd been away for a whole year and hadn't even brought back a single male beast to the clan's territory, I'd get a good beating!" Jiao Nanwu said with a face full of surprise.

Nanwu's current mission is essentially official business. The clan is funding Nanwu to search for superior male beasts in the outside world. Whether Nanwu ultimately enjoys the beasts alone or shares them, it is acceptable to the merfolk clan. After all, what the merfolk clan wants is not male beasts, but superior offspring.

However, if Jiao Nanwu travels at public expense for a year but does not bring back any superior male beasts, then Jiao Nanwu may need to use adult mermaid tears to repay the embezzled funds.

Simply put, it means slapping her buttocks until the mermaid cries loudly. The mermaid's tears crystallize as soon as they leave the tear glands, forming strange pearl-like crystals with amazing beauty effects.

Mermaid tears are therefore one of the important resources that the merfolk trade with land creatures. However, merfolk generally collect pearls from the cries of young children, because merfolk are usually optimistic and carefree and rarely cry.

Should we leave now?

After her initial surprise, Jiao Nanwu looked at Su Yan and, in front of everyone, pointed to the bedroom in the upper space of Luohe Residence, asking Su Yan if they wanted to go up there to discuss the new knowledge together.

"Hey! You're leaving without even eating? The food at Luoheju isn't cheap, don't waste it!"

My aunt pinched Jiao Nanwu's mouth shut, looking at the intrigued merman with a face full of black lines:

"You've been paid for all of this. If you want to cause trouble, wait until after you've finished eating before you talk about anything else!"

Luoheju is not cheap; some dishes here require spirit stones to pay for.